Manage, coordinate, and direct technicians and group leaders to meet high production demands for testing, certification, and approval to release product for shipping.  Operations include chemical and metallurgical testing, lab machine shop, material handling, and analytical equipment including state of the art X-ray / Optical emissions spectrometry, combustion analysis, metallography, stress rupture, impact and tensile testing.  This position is fully responsible for accuracy of lab results, training and certifying of staff, providing safe work practices and environment, development of procedures, compliance with technical and customer standards, and maintaining third party laboratory accreditation. This includes responsibility for administration of Laboratory Information System software, laboratory calibrations, statistical analysis, purchases, and the maintenance of equipment for handling, preparation, and analysis for a three-shift laboratory operation.  Provide technical advice and expertise to other departments and divisions.

• Develop, verify, validate, and use physics-based and empirical models that simulate hot working, melting, solidification, fluid flow, atomization, heat transfer, and microstructure evolution in nickel-base superalloys, titanium alloys, and specialty steels.
• Utilize process simulation to support manufacturing process improvements that result in better product quality and lower manufacturing costs.
• Conduct testing and characterization in order to generate data necessary for model development, validation, or verification.
• Communicate results to management, colleagues, and customers in the form of written reports and oral presentations.
• Propose, defend and execute project concepts for new products, cost savings, quality improvement, and process innovation. Collaborate with technology and research colleagues across company.
• Maintain industry expertise and current knowledge of developments in process modeling by experimentation, attending meetings and conferences conducted by trade associations, by reviewing trade literature and by periodic visit to customer or supplier base.
• Enthusiastically tackle challenges and achieve results while dealing with ambiguity and change that accompanies working in a research environment.

Job Summary: The Melt Shop Process Engineer is a hands-on position that requires close collaboration with the EAF, LMF, and Caster Managers, Supervisors, and Operators, as well as other departmental and operations management. This position involves quality investigations, continuous improvement, data analysis, and product/process development.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Demonstrate and emphasize safe work practices and behaviors to all employees.
2. Strive to identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, cost, organization, or efficiency.
3. Maintain and verify department production process data.
4. Report on a daily basis Day/WTD/MTD/YTD performance metrics.
5. Develop and maintain automated data collection/analysis systems.
6. Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the production and maintenance workforce.
7. Lead investigations related to missed chemistries, clogging, slab surface, customer claim, or other quality-related issues.
8. Manage the scarfing and slab release processes.
9. Provide technical/analytical support for all CAPEX/product development/improvement initiative trials.
10. Oversee and coordinate the implementation of NPS system requirements.
11. Lead root cause investigations utilizing continuous improvement/PDCA methodology and implement and complete related corrective actions (production process failure analysis).
12. Review and update SOPs to meet safety/quality/cost goals.
13. Conduct periodic quality/safety/SOP audits of all areas Scrap/EAF/LMF/Caster/Scarfing Yard.

METALLURGIST

JOB SUMMARY:
Utilizing independent judgment, this position provides technical support to the Sales Department and customers for all phases of steel operations. Supports Operations and ensures good quality procedures are in place. Oversees trials of new materials and processes to ensure good quality practices are being utilized. Provides metallurgical support to management personnel.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Works to improve process and product to meet customer requirements.
Provides technical support for all phases of steel operations including melting, teeming and annealing steel ingots.
Assists Operations in the Melting Department, as needed
Ensures that Operations follow established procedures and sound metallurgical practices.
Supports the investigation and disposition of non-conforming material.
Performs failure investigations on customer returns/claims.
Supports the Sales department by providing technical guidance and creation/revision of grades to meet customer needs.
Responsible for quality training for employees.

As a Metallurgist, you will be responsible for applying engineering knowledge and talent with emphasis on internal and external customer support. There should be a focus on achieving a fundamental understanding of heat treatment and metal finishing. This individual should apply this fundamental knowledge to provide information, tools and resources to improve business effectiveness, reduced variation and increase understanding of heat treatment and metal finishing to directly impact quality, service, productivity and profitability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Improve process understanding of heat treatment and metal finishing. This should be both equipment and material related. Develop Shop Floor understanding.
• Implement, improve, trouble shoot precision controlled heat treatment consistent with customer and AMS specification requirements.
• Identify opportunities based on data analysis. Physically identify opportunities for process performance, data integrity, productivity improvement and energy conservation.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies. Participate in industry benchmarking.
• Join and influence technical committees as identified. Look for reduction of waste and improvement of value.
• Help plants identify opportunities for improvement. Help them achieve their goals.
• Participate in training functions. This can include process, test methods and analytical understanding.
• Help in new or existing job development. Help understand customer expectations and requirements. Assist getting the job established at the plant. Provide physical assistance to internal and external customers.
• Develop business understanding. Obtain knowledge of what it takes to get parts out the door and understand pressures of plant personnel.
• Perform development, complaint, routine analyses to best of ability utilizing resources at Corporate and Divisional levels.
• Respond as expeditiously as possible while ensuring confidence in the accuracy of information and recommendations to all requests for information and tasks.  Demonstrate good judgment on own ability and when to utilize consultation and other resources.
• Generate written reports and procedures concerning activities, functions, systems, and individual circumstances.  Document relative information for communication to internal and external customers and serve as permanent reference and record.
• Establish communication links with external customers and participate in external customer visits at
• Review instructions, specifications, and prints and design robust processes, assist in determining the method of conducting inspection and tests, and sequence of operations.
• Objectively design and execute experiments for problem-solving or process improvement based on sound engineering theory and practice.  Obtain statistically valid data and base reviews and conclusions on fact and data.
• React to conditions that may result in non-conforming product.  Follow up and report on non-conforming product analysis.
• Execute applicable computer software programs to store, calculate, retrieve, and report analytical, metallurgical, and quality data.